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Islam in the United States, from 1492 to 2008
… A recent episode of the Here & Now interview show on WBUR, a Boston-based … Public Radio affiliate, features Jocelyne Cesari, director of Harvard's Islam in the West Program and editor of the new …
Educating Undergraduates
… In the new academic year, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences … and universities to recognize that "Special education comprises a wider field than vocationalism; and correspondingly, …
Issue: September-October 2004
John Manning Appointed Dean of Harvard Law School
… new leadership. President Drew Faust today named Bromley professor of law John F. Manning , who has been deputy dean, as dean, effective July 1. The appointment of Manning, a graduate of Harvard College …
Dolores Huerta on the Power to Change
… conversation between Soledad O’Brien ’88 and Dolores Huerta—the labor and civil-rights activist who co-founded the … stood up to make one more statement. “I have a request of you,” she said. “Alumni here, of Harvard, please address the [Harvard] president, say, …
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Football 2021: Harvard 30, Lafayette 3
… On Saturday at the Stadium , in a stress-free tune-up for the heavyweight … Beats Yale 29-29.” ) This year, however, tie games are off the table. There will be victors…and there might be … not been in 2021. The Tigers and the Big Green are scoring machines. On Saturday against Brown, Princeton quarterback …
Behind the Scenes: Scholars' Differing Perspectives
… Often, the hardest part about writing an article is knowing where to start . That difficulty emerges a few times in the process. First, who are the best interview subjects? … race anyway , you’re going to talk to him first. The start of the piece will probably be the start of the race. It’s a …
Where the Volunteers Are
… Despite New England’s deserved reputation as an incubator of social innovation, the region’s volunteer rates do not fare well in a national … show that New England has an aggregated lower percentage of citizen engagement and volunteerism than the rest of the …
Issue: September-October 2009
News from the HAA
… Election Winners Members of the Board of Overseers have elected higher-education … Harvey ’71, M.B.A. ’74. Baltimore. Chair and CEO, The Enterprise Foundation. Walter H. Morris Jr. ’73, M.B.A. ’75. …
Malls on the Median
… pay cash for a vintage Eames chair. It may sound like another day at the mall, but there is not a credit card or cash … cars stopped at traffic lights, and in the vast vacant lots of this sprawling city. Sidewalk sale: clothing hung out not … front lawns into commercial spaces and attracting clientele of varying classes and ethnicities, street vending and yard …
Issue: March-April 2002
Brevia
… Dean Steps Down Photograph by Kris Snibbe/ Harvard News Office Barry R. Bloom Barry R. Bloom , dean of the Harvard School of Public Health since 1999 (and thus the … Chicago, and Georgetown saw their early-applicant rosters rise 20 percent to 45 percent. Admissions officials expect a …
Issue: January-February 2008
From the Archives: Unwelcome Mats
… Refugees from the murderous wars in Sudan, Libya, and Syria, walking north … Bangladesh. These peoples all figure in the rising salience of immigration as a toxic political, economic, tribal, and racial issue across much of the developed, and part of the developing, world. The …
Off the Shelf
… ’56 and Todd London (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26). The avant-garde director, famous for his role in My Dinner … chocolate chip marshmallow cookies: experiential learning of an unusual sort, with very hands-on making—and eating. … Paarlberg. Ph.D. ’75 (Knopf, $28.95). The Wellesley professor emeritus, a scholar of international food and …
Issue: November-December 2020
The Dean Discloses His “D”
… On Labor Day afternoon, some 1,600 freshmen, gathered from 49 states and 65 countries into Sanders Theatre … Church, learned that recently appointed interim dean of Harvard College Donald Pfister—“Like you, I’ve just moved in, and like you, I will be moving out of the Yard when classes end”—had barely mustered a D in …
The Voter-Fraud Disinformation Campaign
… implemented for decades, become so polarized in a matter of months? A new report by a research team at Harvard’s … Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society argues that the myth that vote-by-mail is susceptible to widespread … the least politically engaged Americans about the security of vote-by-mail. The study, which was led by Berkman …
Function and Form
… within that renewal is much that is truly new , reflecting the changed nature of research in particular in an era of larger-scale and … for the new work of the University will soon begin to rise. … Rebuilding, and building, for the twenty-first …
Issue: May-June 2004